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Friendly reminder that you should consider everything you say on the Fediverse to be publicly available and archived by your adversaries, who can and will use it against you.
"Quiet public" isn't saving you from that. "Followers-only" isn't saving you from that. Don't assume your DMs are private either.
@fabiscafe @kkarhan @vkc and no e2ee scheme resists to either end being compromised.
@nicoco @fabiscafe @kkarhan @vkc
Obviously no form of communication can ever stop a compromised person at the other end, because by definition a message has to be readable by its recipient.
But that doesn't mean you give up securing the journey from one end to the other. There are lots of things you can do to stop people in the middle spying on you.
As the saying goes, perfection is the enemy of good, especially if perfection is impossible.
@contrapunctus@en.osm.town@FediThing @nicoco is not advocating giving up. It's a (heavily veiled) criticism of #centralized services like #Signal, which are a tempting and easy target for coercion and backdoors. People who recognize that, push for #decentralized alternatives like #XMPP.